In Discussion

April 29, 2011

Hosted by David Gibbons

Episode Description

In Discussion

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"In Discussion" brings world leaders and people from all areas of life together in frank and powerful conversation. Interviewer and writer David Gibbons invites great thinkers, politicians, business leaders, scientists, religious leaders, scientists and entertainers and notable philosophic think tanks together in cleverly orchestrated interviews and discussions. In developing and encouraging frank conversation towards the dynamic ignition of positive mindsets, the paradigm of progressive and positive change is at the forefront of its vision and mission.

David Gibbons

David Gibbons has been writing and involved in the broadcast arena since 2001. His work in understanding the world we live in and its people continues to fascinate and consume his interest, in pursuing a direct conversational style with leaders, literature scholars and everyday individuals. He is the host of David Gibbons "In Discussion", the daily program that engages world's thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business individuals, scientists and religious leaders. He is constantly seeking a greater understanding of the world we live in today with an unassuming style and delivery, leading to the premise of igniting dialogue towards dynamic change in our society.

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Todd Allen

Actor-writer-producer Todd Allen has appeared in over 50 film and television productions. Among the more notable are three films with Director Lawrence Kasdan, SILVERADO, GRAND CANYON, and WYATT EARP. He has also appeared in several films with Academy Award winner Kevin Costner. Allen also co-starred with Robert Duvall in his Academy Award-nominated, THE APOSTLE, and again more recently in the Emmy Award winning AMC original mini-series, BROKEN TRAIL, where he received excellent reviews for the role of “Marshal Bill Miller.” Allen has just completed filming the lead role in the independent feature, AMERICAN CARTEL, playing a Texas Ranger who brings down a dangerous drug cartel. Recent television appearances include CLAIRE, a movie for the Hallmark Channel, and guest-starring appearances on MONK, CSI, and NCIS. Previously, he had leading roles in the television movies, “The Soul Collector”, “Night Visitors”, “Tall Dark and Deadly” and others. A personal favorite came early in his career when he played jet ace Chuck Yeager in the CBS three-hour special presentation of “Pancho Barnes”.
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Joseph Andrews

The WALK OF HEARTS award was founded by one of our civic leaders, Joseph Andrews, an active business member and President Emeritus of the Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce.
Inspired by the hard work and dedication of his mother, who worked at one of the schools he himself attended, and the positive influence that certain teachers had during his formative years, Joseph created the WALK OF HEARTS Foundation. A way of bringing overdue recognition to those teachers and individuals who have the unique ability to inspire, mold and perhaps - with a word or two of encouragement—change a life forever.
The concept of the WALK OF HEARTS was presented to the Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce in 2003, after Joe read an article in the Daily News about the great work the City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency was doing in downtown Canoga Park. The inaugural ceremony was held in 2004 with 10 teachers honored.
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Susan Anthony

Dr. Susan Anthony
In the fast lane with its desperate consequences and important life lessons, Dr. Susan Anthony now enjoys a happy and harmonious existence that reflects her divine calling, working tirelessly as an international spiritual teacher, healer and author. She has been initiated into some of the greatest grand master lineages on earth. She is also an initiate of the Shamanic Path and has studied most of the energetic healing modalities of the world. She was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Divinity by one of the leading USA Schools of Divinity. As a result of several near death experiences, she has been blessed to receive through 'direct knowing' vital spiritual knowledge (gnosis) at this crucial crossroads in human evolution. This has enabled her to develop a practical, formula for life-changing miracles. Today she regularly consults to pillars of society, heads of billion dollar corporations, commissioners of police, heads of government agencies, MP's and celebrities.
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David Asser

David Asser has worked in the field of immigration law for over 12 years. He has helped many clients in complex immigration situations. His case record includes deportation matters, asylum, labor certifications, temporary visas, family based immigration and international mobility. From 1996 until 1999 he served as the Press Secretary and Spokesperson of the Justice Department of The Netherlands in The Hague and as an International Policy Advisor for the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization service. In this capacity he was involved in many high profile cases. David was the press secretary in a time when immigration law was the greatest issue in the European debate. Subsequently, the laws were challenged on a daily basis: Iranian asylum seekers went into a highly publicized hunger strike; Somalia nationals, out of protest, set themselves on fire in front of government buildings; anti-immigrant sentiments were rampant; planes loaded with illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka landed in Holland and all but a few of the “illegals” disappeared; corruption and fraud was discovered within the Service; Amsterdam finally revolted against the immigration laws of the country.
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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone and his wife began this now well established retail establishment over seventeen years in a garage. In that time through careful strategies and avoidance of the common pitfalls have grown a business that proudly stands as the largest supplier of pewter in the United States. The last two years has seen extensive downturns in business confidence, supplier failures and consumer trend downturns. With a survival strategy they continue to beat the odds and succeed in keeping their doors open where so many have failed with a grinding economic forecast. With recovery demanded, Holland Boone hopes to build upon its position in the marketplace and becoming a driving force and model in the retail sector.
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Tom Bowman

Tom Bowman is one of the premier interpreters of global change, climate and energy science, and green business strategies. He is a social entrepreneur, advisor, communication strategist, and science interpreter. As President of Bowman Design Group, he led award-winning climate exhibition designs for the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences and Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and the Ocean on the Edge exhibition at the Aquarium of the Pacific. As a consultant with Bowman Global Change, he contributed to the federal Climate Literacy education guide and organized a groundbreaking meeting to assess public attitudes about global warming and authored its influential summary report. Bowman founded the Climate Solutions Project to develop public intervention strategies with a blue-ribbon team of experts in climate science, social science, economics, ethics and social marketing.
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Georgienne Bradley

The Imaging Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Executive Director, Georgienne Bradley spearheaded the launch of Costa Rican Marine Imaging Project (CRMIP), in 1995. This highly successful precursor of the Imaging Foundation recognized a strong need for marine related educational programs in Costa Rica. Using creative solutions CRMIP was able to execute several national educational programs with little funding. They are proud of the accomplishments made and awards received by their Advisory Team. Paramount to our 'super-team' selection process was their proven dedication to wildlife education. Each member brings to the table not only a valuable talent, but an enthusiastic willingness to mentor others and convey a passion for the natural world through entertaining projects. These projects will be used in educational programs for local communities, youth groups, and nonprofit organizations. The Advisory Team profiles reveal a cadre of sharp, creative, and scientific minds. We invite you to join us in our challenge to better understand and protect the natural world.
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Iain Burnside

Following study at Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, specializing particularly in song repertoire. He has collaborated with many vocal artistes, and was particularly close friends with the late soprano Susan Chilcott. Burnside is the Godparent of Chilcott's son, Hugh, and following her death in 2003 became his legal guardian. Other vocalists he has worked and recorded with include Laura Claycomb, Matthew Rose, Roderick Williams, with whom he has recorded the complete Finzi songs for baritone voice and most recently Sarah Connolly, with a release of songs by Korngold. After presenting the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, he became a presenter on Radio 3, for many years fronting the weekly song-orientated show Voices for which he won a Sony Radio Award. Since then, he presents an eponymous show on Sunday mornings.
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Peter Canova

Author Peter Canova
At the age of twenty-three, Peter first realized his abilities to practice intuitive medical readings, remote viewing, psycho kinesis and other “psychic” phenomena. These abilities combined with several other talents qualified Peter to handle this project. Communicative writing with clarity and persuasion was essential for his work as a large-scale land developer and town planner. These skills helped him break down the book’s complex spiritual ideas into simple and entertaining fiction. He also has twenty-five years of voluminous research behind him in mainstream and alternative religious studies, spiritual history, psychology, and quantum physics. Pope Annalisa was a combination of this research and information channeled in his own meditations. Peter is a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University where he majored in political science. He spent several years in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, a background that greatly contributed to the vivid detail of peoples and cultures portrayed in Pope Annalisa.
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Don Chapman

Don Chapman Founder of Lost Canadians Vancouver-born lost his Canadian citizenship when, while he was a child, his father moved south of the border and became a U.S. citizen. Mr. Chapman's identity was rooted in his father's citizenship, regardless of his mother's. After years of fighting to have his Canadian citizenship restored, and for the rights of thousands of other so-called Lost Canadians who found themselves jilted by immigration law vagaries, Mr. Chapman won his battle. The government enacted a bill that allowed the majority of Lost Canadians to reclaim citizenship, but suffers still from reluctance to fully enforce the law across many cases. Don Chapman has spent twenty years devoting his life to supporting the bill and those people still unable to fulfill the dream of returning home to a country where citizenship is denied. John Reynolds Member of the Queen's Privy Council, The Honorable Marlene Jennings MP, Deputy House Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Andrew Teledgi MP Former Chairman of the Citizenship Committee in the House of Commons.
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Duane Conder

Duane Conder has more than 25 years experience as a director/DP, editor and motion graphics designer for many successful film and video projects. He has received numerous nominations and awards for editing and has received acclaim for his work over the years. Through the 1990s, Conder had steady work behind (and in front of) the camera on shows like Walker, Texas Ranger, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol and Barney and Friends— all in his home market of Dallas, Texas. He had steady corporate clients as well; shooting, producing and directing projects for clients that span from ABC to Zegna. Conder received calls regularly from companies large and small. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Discovery News, Good Morning America and GE all had Conder in the rolodex. The prospect of new, different and exciting work on the so-called “digital coast” brought Conder to Los Angeles. It was during this time that he began to realize that no matter how interesting or creative the work, if the people behind it weren’t real, then in the big scheme of things, neither was the work he was doing for them.
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John Core

John Core Master of Divinity, is a professor in Theology offering practical application of the Biblical Scriptures. He is a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona where time is spent with family and the Church body.
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Lesli Moore Dahlke

In 1970 Lesli Moore Dahlke traveled to Vietnam as an 18-year old civilian girl, sponsored by the US Army at Christmas time to provide morale and friendly support to the young soldiers who were so far away during the Holidays. At the end of the Christmas tour, she returned home with many photos, memories, and stories for a lifetime, and resumed my normal life. In June of 1990, she heard the heart stopping words …”you have cancer”. She was subsequently diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma — a large abdominal retroperitoneal liposarcoma. On the day of diagnosis, the life she knew abruptly ended. Lesli Moore Dahlke was 38. She has had cancer or been actively involved in its related treatments, follow-thru, challenges, heartbreaks, losses, and so many battles for twenty years. She recently said” When looking at the whole of my life, I have been involved with cancer for more than a third of my years. The struggles of invasive surgery, chemo and getting used to the adjustment of the loss of so many internal organs — while literally learning to live all over again — was an earthshaking change to a happy life.”
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Ezili Dantò

Marguerite Laurent, known as Ezili Dantò, is founder and President of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN"), a network of lawyers, scholars, journalists, concerned individuals and grassroots organizations and activists, dedicated to institutionalizing the rule of law and protecting the civil and cultural rights of Haitians at home and abroad. Attorney Laurent/Ezili Dantò is the most prolific international writer and advocate for Haiti and is internationally known as the foremost legal analyst and commentator/writer of the untold counter-colonial-narrative on Haiti. Zili wrote a judicial reform agenda for Haiti, advised and supervised on numerous judicial reform projects while working as legal advisor and international foreign consultant to Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide between 1993-1995.
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Barry Eisler

After graduating from Cornell Law School, Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center. Eisler's thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous "Best Of" lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. The first book in Eisler's assassin John Rain series, Rain Fall, has been made into a movie starring Gary Oldman that was released by Sony Pictures in April 2009. His latest, INSIDE OUT, will be launched in the United States on June 29, 2010.
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Ashley Esqueda

When she’s not playing World of Warcraft or diving nose-deep into a Chuck Palahniuk novel, Ashley Esqueda is making someone laugh. Her love of comedy began at a young age, when she watched television shows like “You Can’t Do That on Television” and “Married With Children.” Even though she majored in Television Production while attending Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, it wasn’t until her first stint as host of its student-produced late night show “Nightcap” that she realized meeting interesting people, writing jokes, and cracking up audiences was precisely what she wanted to do with her life. A friendly, exuberant, and ambitious man of many talents Ryan Gallifant is most dedicated to serving the Lord with every part of him. He is completing his degree to be a Math, Science and English Elementary Education teacher with a minor in Theology. He is looking forward to mentoring and investing in the children in his classes. He has also recognized Farmville as a major source of enlightenment and connection to a record 70 million friends on-line keeping him busy expanding the empirical farming community.
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Daniel Estulin

Daniel Estulin (born in Russia) is an author, public speaker, investigative journalist and author of conspiracy books on the Bilderberg Group, an annual invitation-only conference of the elites in the fields of business, finance, media, military and politics. He is known for his extensive works on this group having written a book called "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" as well as for his live seminars broadcast throughout the world. Estulin wrote The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (original title: La Verdadera Historia Del Club Bilderberg), purportedly a report on the nature and meetings of the world’s most powerful people. According to Estulin's book, the secretive Bilderbergers have been making major important political, economical and social decisions since their first gathering in 1954. Estulin published a second book, Los secretos del club Bilderberg, released in September 2006. The English version, The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, was released in the US on September 22, 2007.
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Seth Forman

Dr. Seth Forman graduated medical school at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA. He then completed his residency in dermatology, a training program dedicated to dermatology and skin care, at the Medical College of Virginia. He was selected and served as Chief Resident during his final year of training. Following that, he completed an advanced fellowship in dermatopathology at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. He has researched, studied and written peer-reviewed articles about various dermatological issues including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, merkel cell carcinoma, vascular tumors, and inflammatory conditions such as eczema. Dr. Forman also is the primary author of two chapters in Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy, the leading reference textbook for dermatological therapeutics.
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Gill Garcetti

Gill Garcetti – Master Photographer
Although Gil spent 32 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, eight years as the elected District Attorney, much of his life has been spent as an urban photographer. His first photo book, IRON: ERECTING THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, (November 2002, Balcony Press), received much critical praise in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. The photographs emphasize the contribution of the ironworkers to the building of America, but they also document the beauty of the curved, angled, and bent raw steel of this building before being covered by its exterior skin. His work has engaged foundations and organizations around the world with profound effects, as it further raises visibility of the vital work needed in third world counties.
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David Gibbons

Born in 1962 in Salisbury England, David William Gibbons holds a degree (BA Hons) in Photography and Film. He later graduated in Business and English Literature. His career began in 1983 as a Photographer in Southampton England moving to London to pursue work in Advertising, Commercial Photography and Business. David Gibbons is now directing a long-term series of films on leading Scientists, Writers, Artists and Leaders for distribution in 2011. David Gibbons will be participating in actor D.B. Sweeneys "Letters from Hollywood" with supporting letters to servicemen abroad in the Fall/Spring 2010/11. He has appeared on such distinguished shows as CBS Good Morning Television, NBC Good Morning Television, ABC Evening News, CBS Evening News, and New York's Fox News Television. He is the purveyor of the acclaimed radio show, "In Discussion" with David Gibbons, a worldwide syndicated talk radio show that airs daily on the Gateway Media platform.
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Dan Hanley

Dan Hanley grew up in the small town of Belleville in southern Illinois and was fortunate enough to fulfill his childhood dream of flying commercial jet aircraft as his chosen career. After receiving his commercial license and instrument rating in 1969, he completed a six-year stint as a Naval Aviator flying the P-3 Orion aircraft. United Airlines subsequently hired him as a pilot in 1978 and at the time of discharge was Captain on the 777 Airliner. Following the events of September 11 2001 and with United Airlines in bankruptcy, he attempted to speak out on alleged violations of federal aviation regulations and security frailties. As a result of his efforts, he was rewarded by expulsion from the property thereby destroying a 35-year aviation career.
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Wayne R. Harris

Wayne R. Harris is a newly elected commissioner of District 1 in Florida. He is also executive director of the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce and is most proud of his 27-year career in the United States Air Force. He has lived in the Okaloosa County since 1993.
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Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie B. Hawkins emerged in 1992 with a fierce bidding war for her debut album, Tongues & Tails. The Columbia Records release quickly went gold, earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, and fired a single, "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", into the Top Five. Another gold album, Whaler, followed two years later along with the single, "As I Lay Me Down" that would chart in Billboard for a record-breaking sixty-seven weeks. By the time she got to Timbre in 1999, she had won universal respect for her rare blend of gutsy honesty. Hawkins subsequently worked out an agreement that allowed her to leave her label while retaining ownership of the masters to Timbre. She re-released Timbre on her Trumpet Swan imprint and hit the road--on her own, with her band in a station wagon. The last year has been a busy one for Sophie, personally and professionally. In November 2008, she became the proud mother of a son Dashiell. At the present time she is hard at work writing a Broadway musical for Kristin Chenoweth and working on her new album.
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Klaus Heinemann

Dr. Klaus Heinemann was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States after the Second World War to work as a scientist and physicist. The process of spiritual discovery later became the focus of Klaus' life in the early 1970ies, when he and his wife attended classes and seminars led by the late Dr. Harry and Emilia Rathbun. Their work focused on the mission and book by the late Dr. Henry Burton Sharman, Jesus as Teacher. The Rathbun's own lives' demonstration that the messenger must be congruent with the message has left a life-changing impression on Klaus. Other spiritual teachers who profoundly impacted Dr. Heinemann's life include the Rev. Dr. Ron Roth, who, perhaps more convincingly than any other teacher he had encountered at the time, emphasized that even the most profound teaching has but little impact on a person's personal growth unless it sinks from the level of the mind to the level of the heart. In his book, "The Orb Project," co-authored with Dr. Miceal Ledwith he discusses digital photographs that contain clear and irrefutable evidence of phenomena that cannot be explained on the basis of conventional physics.
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Denise Herzing

Dr. Denise Herzing, Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project has completed 20 years of her long-term study of the Atlantic spotted dolphins inhabiting Bahamian waters. She received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Biology/Environmental Studies from Union Graduate School, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1993. She is Research Faculty in Biological Sciences and Psychological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida and Scientific Advisor to the American Cetacean Society. Dr. Herzing has authored and co-authored many papers in the fields of whale biology, animal communication and human consciousness. Coverage of her work with the spotted dolphins has appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Ocean Realm and Sonar magazines. Her work has also been featured on the Nature series in the U.S., Discovery Channel, PBS, ABC network television, BBC in England and NHK channel in Japan. Her fields of interest are animal consciousness, behavior and communication of cetaceans, and environmental ethics.
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Phil Jones

Phil Jones is also an accomplished and respected International Business Entrepreneur who has operated successful companies in six countries. He has created and built five number one brands from scratch and in 2001 was Rated Entrepreneur of the Year by the world's number one business coaching organization. His companies have completed over one billion dollars in real estate purchases and he is a Bestselling Author who has written seven books. Phil has also been extensively profiled in the books Secrets of Inspiring Leaders, Secrets of Entrepreneurs under 40 and Secrets of Property Millionaires. A sought after public speaker who has taught over 100,000 people, Phil is considered a master of teaching business, marketing and real estate wealth accumulation and retention strategies. Featured on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, Phil has also received hundreds of letters from students that credit his expertise, advice and education with earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Maryam Kabeer

Maryam Kabeer Faye was guided in her journey of profound transformation and illumination to many extraordinary places and understandings, ultimately to the realization of the deep truth that all lives are connected and united in the oneness of the Creator. Born into a Jewish family in Hollywood, Ca, she was led to live in India and Nepal, and in monasteries in Europe, and then guided to embrace Islam at the hands of an ancient Sufi Master a few minutes away from the tomb of the Prophet Abraham. Sheikha Maryam Kabeer Faye is a speaker and writer on Islam, Sufism, and spirituality. She travels extensively throughout the world on the mission of building bridges of light, knowledge, and understanding.
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David Hume Kennerly

David Hume Kennerly
Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for more than 40 years. He has photographed eight wars, as many U.S. presidents, and he has traveled to dozens of countries along the way. At 25, the Roseburg, Oregon native won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War, and two years later was appointed President Gerald R. Ford’s personal photographer. He has been presented with numerous other honors, among them the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” for his coverage of Reagan and Gorbachev’s historic first summit meeting in Geneva. He was named, “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine. Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s, “The Taking of Flight 847,” and was writer and Executive Producer of a two-hour NBC pilot, “Shooter,” starring Helen Hunt, based on his Vietnam experiences. “Shooter” won the Emmy for “Outstanding Cinematography.”
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John Kessler

Dr. John Kessler Ph.D. Earth System Science
Dr. Kessler is a chemical oceanographer who focuses onisotope biogeochemistry to eluciade how gases in the ocean cycle and ultimatelyparticipate in global climate change. He is particularly interestedin oceanic methane which, due to the dynamic nature and massive size of therelatively unexplored oceanic methane system, has the potential for feedbackswith climate. Dr. Kessler's research strives to quantify sources,sinks, and fluxes of oceanic methane using analytical chemistry measurementswith particular emphasis on stable and radiocarbon isotopes.
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Nicholas 'Nick' Valentino Lampson

Nicholas Valentino 'Nick' Lampson (born February 14, 1945) is an American politician from the state of Texas and was a Congressman representing the 22nd Congressional District of Texas. Lampson was also a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 9th congressional district from 1997 to 2005. After an extremely controversial redistricting of Texas by the Republican Party which received national attention, he lost his congressional seat in 2004. In 2006 he was elected to Congress to represent the 22nd district, once represented by the former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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Miceal Ledwith

Dr. Miceal Ledwith was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967, was a professor of theology for sixteen years, and for the ten years following that, a College President. His research interests had always been in the fundamental areas of religious belief, seeking answers to the "Four Great Questions" as he liked to call them: "Who am I? Where do I come from? What should I do? and where am I going?" After the fall of the Soviet Union when communications improved between Western Europe and the former Soviet bloc countries, he discovered that more than 70% of the population in central and Eastern Europe had no allegiance to any form of religious organization whatsoever. In his series of DVDs, of which The Great Questions in the Hamburger Universe is the first, he starts to put words on the problems most thinking people have found with the traditional proposals about God, religion, and human destiny. It is intended to chart a different course for human hopes and aspirations, based on the deepened and improved insights into the nature of reality recognized today. The series will serve as an introduction to some of the ideas more extensively explored in his forthcoming book Forbidden Truth.
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Andy Levin

Andy Levin is a photographer, teacher, and editor living in New Orleans, Louisiana. A contributing photographer with Life Magazine in the 90's, Levin moved to Louisiana a year before Hurricane Katrina from his native city of New York. A finalist for the Eugene Smith Prize in 2008, Levin is interested in the rights of the underclass, and the relationship between a changing environment and the economically challenged. Levin is the editor of the acclaimed internet photography journal 100eyes. He has photographed in Haiti since 1982.
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Randall Libero

David Gibbons and Randall Libero, creators and hosts of “Visionary Entertainment”. David Gibbons has been writing and involved in the broadcast arena since 2003, entering the world in 2004 with "14 Days". His work in understanding the world we habitate and its people continues to fascinate and perk his interest, in pursuing a direct conversational style with leaders, literature scholars and everyday individuals. He is the host of David Gibbons, the daily program that engages the world's thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business individuals, scientists and religious leaders. Randall Libero is a pioneering media producer whose mission is to promote a new era of what he calls “visionary entertainment”; motion picture and internet media projects communicating ideas that inspire people to a more positive view of themselves and the world. Since September 2006, he has hosted his own talk radio program, Spirit of Film: Conversations, which has highlighted visionary films and filmmakers, from both Hollywood and independent producers.
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Bob Littlefield

Bob Littlefield – Scottsdale City Councilman
Councilman Robert W. Littlefield began his first term on the Scottsdale City Council in June 2002 and was reelected to a second term beginning in June 2006.
Councilman Littlefield has been involved in a variety of civic, youth and professional organizations. He served 11 years as a board member in the Arcadia Scottsdale United Soccer Club and 20 years working with Scottsdale's kids as a youth soccer and baseball coach and soccer referee. He is a member and former director of the Arizona Software & Internet Association. Other memberships include the Arizona Pilot's Association, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, National Federation of Independent Business, American Legion, Kiwanis Club and Civitan. The Councilman also is an Eagle Scout.
A Vietnam combat veteran, Councilman Littlefield served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970 and in the Arizona Army National Guard from 1971 to 1974.
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Michael W. Lynch

Michael W. Lynch was born in Pennsylvania in 1959 living in Cleveland Ohio until the age of ten. He became fascinated with Business success stories and Entrepreneurial ventures and believed in these pursuits as the American Way. He was recruited onto the John Glenn’s Presidential campaign and traveled with Astronaut John Glenn in what became a prestigious opportunity and life experience. In 1991 he married his wife Kimberlee and later had two daughters Shannon and Paige. He purchased Michigan Avenue Partners before establishing McCook Metal's Group. Mr. Lynch was removed as Chairman of McCook Metals on September 7th, 2001. A year later he won the case against GE Capital. McCook assets were sold to a French company Pechiney who in turn sold the assets to Alcoa. The McCook plant was eventually shut down. In 2002, upon reviewing evidence that his on law firm conspired with GE to take his companies away, he sued Seyfarth Shaw for $226 million dollars in damage. This lawsuit was to change his life forever.
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Gary Malkin

Gary Malkin is an award-winning composer/producer and public speaker dedicatedto catalyzing social change and individual healing through the creation ofinspiring, music-infused resources and events. His passion for the humanizingrole that music and the arts can play in society's institutions - health care,religion, education, philanthropic and corporate cultures - consistentlyinflames the hearts and minds of his audiences through media projects, keynotepresentations, training sessions and performances around the globe.
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Ronald Mann

Dr. Mann helps to facilitate the direct experience of thedeeper Self or Soul. This conscious awareness of one's true nature allows forprofound healing of the body and mind and helps to deepen one's relationshipwith God. Dr. Mann's meditative practice began in 1974 with Mindful AwarenessMeditation. Dr. Mann began working with terminally ill children in 1977. Thiswork led him to Elizabeth Kübler Ross, M.D. She had a profound impact on himand during a week long intensive retreat in Hawaii, Dr. Mann had a spontaneousspiritual awakening in which he received the gift to heal others through thetransmission of subtle energy. This mystical awakening opened his intuitiveperception and shifted his life focus from the mind to the heart.
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Melina Mara

Melina Mara is a veteran photojournalist, who is presently a staff photographer covering primarily politics and political issues for the Washington Post. The daughter of a CBS cameraman and a passionate Italian mother, Mara was born in Englewood, New Jersey. She studied political science at Sarah Lawrence College, and after being disillusioned with law aspirations became a teacher. Refocusing her career on photojournalism, Mara attended University of Missouri School of Journalism as a graduate student. She has worked for newspapers and magazines around the country, in the role of both staff member and freelancer. Both Tacoma Washington and Washington D.C. serve as Mara's twin home bases. Now working at the Washington Post as a photojournalist and political photographer, Melina pursues the halls of Washington and beyond to discover the people serving the United States through powerful imagery.
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C.L. Mitchell

C.L. Mitchell is a professor in Theology lecturing Bibliology and practical application of the Biblical Scriptures. Teaching at post-graduate level in both seminary and lecture circuits, he brings many years of deep intellectual and academic knowledge to listeners across the world. Today, C.L. Mitchell appears to discuss his background and experience ahead of the first official programming event on December 18, 2009.
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George Mooradian

Director of Photography George Mooradian is a four time Emmy Award nominee for the hit series According to Jim. Before moving into the multi-camera world, he was cinematographer on over a dozen television movies. His credits operating for high-profile cinematographers such as Vittorio Storaro, ASC (Dick Tracy) served as the foundation for the feature look he brings to his sit-com projects. With numerous credits over 30 years his work has become iconic and continues to expand across film and television and diverse genres.
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Astor Morgan

Astor Morgan is a commercial photographer, photographic artist, philanthropist, spokesman and consultant. He has been involved in the photographic industry for 20 years. His appreciation of the visual arts was born while growing up between the two colorful cultures of southern Louisiana and Sicily, Italy.
Astor’s images have been published worldwide in magazines, on CD covers, movie posters, as well as featured on national and international television. He has also worked with an array of legendary artists, actors and musicians. He is heavily involved in the global photographic community representing commercial photographers and artists, as the Chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Directors for the Advertising Photographers of America. Through the APA, he helps to educate and inspire photographers through workshops and seminars, promoting strong ethics in the photographic community.
Through various silent auctions, print and book publication sales, Astor’s work has helped to raise money for several deserving organizations such as the City of Hope, Pediatric Aids Foundation, Amnesty International, The Aftermath Project, weSpark and Compassionate Eye Foundation.
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Andrew Neve

Andrew Neve has enjoyed a successful career in music for over 20 years. As a composer and musician he has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and other prolific broadcast companies in the broadcast and film arenas. As a Brass player, Keyboard player and vocalist he has worked with and alongside many acts including Alison Moyet (Top 20 Album), Free the Spirit (Top 30 Album), Godley & Creme (10cc), Dame Shirley Bassey (Top 20 Album) and Steve Hackett (Genesis). He has recorded five children's albums, co-produced a top 30 album for the band Free the Spirit and wrote the title track on Shirley Bassey's top 20 album "Thank you for the Years."
Examples of Neve's TV work include Wogan's Web (BBC 1). Secret Service (BBC 1), Tomorrow's World (BBC 1), A Word in your Ear (BBC 1) and the BBC World Service Programmes Europe Today and Newsday. He has recently completed the music for "The Jarmies", a made for TV series due to air in 2010. Information on his career and accomplishments can be found at http://www.nevemusic.co.uk/
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Pat O’Brien

Mr. O'Brien CEO of Air Tech Solutions 4U has worked diligently for the last several years to learn the Indoor Air Quality & Surface Protection Industry. O'Brien is a "Certified Mold Inspector"; that led him to make the decision to start a company to fight the "Cross Contamination of Infectious Diseases" including MRSA, AIDS, E. coli, Salmonella, and H1N! "Swine Flu" and over 100 viruses, bacteria, and molds. Mr. O'Brien formed AirTech Solutions, Inc. a Sub-Chapter "S" 90% Disabled Vietnam Veteran Owned Florida Corporation in October of 2006.
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Vince Pace

Vince Pace has been fundamentally involved with 3D technology since the beginning of the resurgence of the art form. His credits include most of the major projects which have unfolded so far, including the blockbuster 3D movie “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” and the highly anticipated “Avatar” 2009, with more to come. Vince has participated in some of the most dynamic 3D sports presentations seen to date. Fusion technology has become one of the finest 3D platforms in the entertainment business, which has been developed by Vince Pace to change the face of film and mass audience entertainment.
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Louie Palu

Louie Palu’s work has appeared in numerous books, catalogues, festivals and exhibitions internationally, which includes being selected for the photojournalism festival Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France five times (2004-08) and also includes five nominations for the Visa d'Or in the Daily Press Award, Internationale Fototage in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen in Germany, George Eastman House, Ping Yao Festival in China, Fotografia International Festival of Rome, Voies Off Fringe Festival in Arles, France, Centrum for Fotografi in Stockholm, Sweden, His work has been published in numerous publications worldwide including The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Toronto Star, The Walrus, Geist, National Post, Macleans, NPR, The Globe and Mail and Sunday Times Magazine. Memberships and Professional Affiliations are White House News Photographers Association, US Senate Press Photographers Gallery, National Press Photographers Association, Canadian Association of Journalists, and News Photographers Association of Canada.
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Robert Pease

After a near death experience Dr. Robert Pease became aware that the only thing that happens when we pass away,is that we stop breathing. “Nothing else changes, whatever consciousness I have here I take with me through the looking glass.” It became evident that his journey was to discover deeper levels of awareness. As an internationally renowned transformational life coach, psychic, motivational speaker and author he leads you through the remarkable journey of the butterfly and beyond with his latest book. “Spiritual Bookcamp.” With credits in film and entertainment his work as a radio broadcaster brings inspiration to listeners looking for enlightenment and peace.
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Martin Perlberger

Martin Perlberger has been representing the entertainment industry for 50 years with numerous credits that include among many The Lion in Winter and Peter Seller’s acclaimed Pink Panther. Educated at Stamford and later admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, he has represented the greatest directors and producers across film, television and most recently interactive projects. His work includes distribution, negotiation and financing structure planning. His work as a broadcaster, analyst and commentator has shaped the industry over a long and established career.
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Bruce Piasecki

Dr. Bruce Piasecki is the president and founder of AHC Group, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in energy, materials, and environmental corporate matters since 1981. He is the author of seven seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and corporate change, including the Nature Society's book of the year, In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Technology Review, and the Christian Science Monitor. His latest book The Surprising Solution was published this year. Since 1990, Dr. Piasecki and his staff have run hundreds of benchmarking workshops for numerous multinational Corporate Affiliates, involving key executives in site remediation, power markets, emerging issues, and governance concerns since Enron. With his Corporate Environmental Strategy book attracting the attention of change agents and board members in his client and affiliates network, Dr. Piasecki has moved the field of environmental and energy strategy closer to financial markets and mainstream financial diagnostics. The AHC Group has achieved this through a series of key alliances.
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Susan Picking

Susan Picking is a singer songwriter with lashings of talent. SLP released her much anticipated CD Down in Your Soul in February of 2008. She recorded it at Mambo Sound and in Long Beach with engineer and producer Steve McNeil. She has received praise for her moving melodies and stirring lyrics which reflect a deep soul. Susan’s songs are about life, but not as we usually think of life. She cajoles the listener to see the quirky underbelly. Her wistful wit comes through a voice rich with lovely cadences. Recently Picking released a 3 track demo titled Take Three to wet your appetite for a full length CD due out at the end of this year. This was recorded at CharlaQuinn Studios in Long Beach recorded and co-produced with Ray Echlin. She was honored in March when her song “Why” was chosen for the 2009 SongsAlive! Compilation CD. SongsAlive! is an international non-profit that supports Indie Artists with exposure, performance, and creative opportunities.
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Ewan Pidgeon

Ewan Pidgeon, the one with the funniest name and accent, has created high-profile campaigns for the past 25 years for some of the most recognized brands on the planet, including Toyota, Avis, British Airways, Ford, Panasonic, American Airlines and Mattel among others. Derek Wilksen was principal and executive vice president of RiechesBaird for nearly 14 years, charged with the planning, development and expansion of integrated marketing services. His experience is wide to say the least, with expertise in not only corporate communications and public relations, but branding and strategy, as well, for a broad range of industries and clients. Toyota, Allergan, GT Bicycles, Isuzu, Toto Kiki, MonierLifetile and Entergy Corporation rank among them.
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Scott Porter

Scott Porter is a staff scientist at LUMCON and has over 21 years experience as an investigative biologist with an environmental survey company – EcoLogic Environmental. His began as an oil field consultant whose zone of study includes the coastal Gulf States with a concentration in the Louisiana's estuaries and petroleum platforms. Through his services as an independent survey biologist specializing in biological resource analysis, the P I has collected over 5,000 biological reef samples and has over 3,000 scuba dives from 1988-2009. Mr. Porter holds a degree in Marine Biology. He has discovered new species on the platform that have yet to be documented in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. Matt Simmons was past Chairman of the National Ocean Industries Association, and served as energy adviser to President George W. Bush, among others. Simmons is author of the book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, which examines oil reserve decline rates to help raise awareness of the unreliability of Middle East oil reserves. Simmons is one of the top minds in the world when it comes to energy.
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Shawn Randall

Shawn Randall began her career as a ballet dancer and danced in New York and Hollywood. She has also been an actress and free lance writer. It was when she began to teach drama to children that she realized how drama could be used as a tool for personal development by changing behavior patterns. She further realized the enormous potential of changing internal behavior patterns (thoughts, feelings) as a source for spiritual development. After an in-depth study of metaphysics, Randall began to channel and teach channeling and personal/spiritual development. Currently she is regarded as the foremost teacher of channeling in the nation. "The more you allow yourself to love yourself and let in the love of God/Goddess All That Is," she says, "the more you are able to receive loving energies, healing and information from the nonphysical realms."
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Brian Roquemore

Brian Roquemore was born in Orlando, Florida. He is Founder and President of America's All Stars, which is a nationwide, character-education program targeting all 53 million young people K thru 12. President and Mrs. George W. Bush have served as honorary chairpersons. During the Bicentennial of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, he founded the National Thanksgiving Foundation. He arranged two National Years of Thanksgiving to commemorate those two Bicentennial events. He personally lobbied all members of the House and Senate to pass the Thanksgiving legislation. He attended an Oval Office ceremony as President Reagan signed the National Year of Thanksgiving Proclamation. Thirty-five governors and over 1,000 mayors issued similar proclamations and schools and civic groups held patriotic events nationwide. Later, President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush were Honorary Co-Chairs. Bob Hope was National Chairman. Previously, Brian was Vice President of American Capital Corporation, a Venture Capital firm located in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Steve Schklair

Steve Schklair, Founder and CEO of 3ality Digital Systems has been working at the front edge of new technologies for most of his career. He has left a mark in movies, special effects, and in interactive media. Mr. Schklair is currently focused on the development and production of new digital 3D programming. He is highly esteemed by an international client list as one of the world’s leading experts in digital and live action 3D and is one of the primary catalysts behind the recent resurgence of 3D in Hollywood films. Among many achievements he served as 3D and Digital Image Producer on 3ality Digital’s U2 3D movie. He was also Senior Executive Producer for films such as Apollo 13, The Fifth Element, Titanic and Terminator 2. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and is an alumnus of the USC Cinema Master’s program.
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Susan Shaw

Dr. Susan Shaw of the Marine Environmental Research Institute is an outspoken and influential voice on ocean pollution. She has conducted large-scale scientific investigations on the effects of hundreds of environmental chemicals in marine animals. She is also credited as the first scientist to show that brominated flame-retardants and perfluorinated chemicals in consumer products have contaminated marine mammals and commercially important fish stocks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Her research has influenced policy decisions in the US and abroad, including the Maine legislature's decision to ban the neurotoxic flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca), and the subsequent US phase-out of the chemical. In 2009, she published the first comprehensive review of flame retardant chemicals in marine ecosystems of the American continents, and was appointed to the Editorial Board of the international journal Reviews on Environmental Health. Shaw has recently been nominated to be a Woodrow Wilson visiting fellow.
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David Sigall

David is a prominent member of Ingpen Williams an artist's management firm in London. Founded in 1946 by Joan Ingpen, and her dog Williams, the business passed into the hands of Howard Hartog when Joan Ingpen moved to Covent Garden as artistic administrator at the request of Sir Georg Solti. She subsequently held similar positions at the Paris Opéra and the Metropolitan Opera New York. During the second half of the twentieth century, the company represented many of the greatest artists of the time, including Sir George Solti, Pierre Boulez, Rudolf Kempe, Sir Michael Tippett, Dame Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Söderström, Christa Ludwig, Geraint Evans, Hans Hotter and Alfred Brendel. Boulez and Brendel remain on the list today. Ingpen and Williams has adapted to the twenty-first century without losing any of the traditions of long-term personal management that have always been at the heart of the company. It has maintained a scale of operation, which allows the firm's individuals to communicate with each other, with its artists and with those throughout the world who wish to engage its artists.
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Kevin Sorbo

Kevin Sorbo has enjoyed success on television for over 20 consecutive years, a feat rarely accomplished by an actor. Sorbo quickly rose to stardom in the title role of the hit series, “Hercules, the Legendary Journeys”. The immense popularity of the 5 initial 2-hour telefilms in 1993 resulted in the launch of a weekly series by 1994. The series not only became a breakout hit by becoming the number one first-run program in syndication, it also passed “Baywatch” as the most watched TV show in the world. The innovative action hour revitalized the entire action/adventure genre on television and fostered two spin-off series, “Xena, Warrior Princess”, and “Young Hercules”. Sorbo also directed two episodes of the show, and co-wrote one installment. Following the success of “Hercules”, Sorbo went on to star in the lead role of “Captain Dylan Hunt” in “Gene Roddenberry’s, Andromeda”. The series, based upon writings from the late “Star Trek” creator’s archives, debuted as the number one hour show in first run syndication and held that spot throughout its five year run from 2000-2005.
In 1997, Sorbo made his feature film debut in Universal Studio's “Kull, the Conqueror”, a prequel to “Conan, the Barbarian”. Other films include, “Walking Tall, the Payback”, “Walking Tall, Lone Justice, “Last Chance Café”, “Something Beneath”, “Clipping Adam”, "Never Cry Werewolf", "An American Carol" with David Zucker, "Meet the Spartans", "Lightning Strikes", "Tommy and the Cool Mule", "Prairie Fever", and “Avenging Angel” which aired the summer of 2007 and was the third highest rated movie in the history of the Hallmark Channel.
Sorbo also starred in “Meet the Spartans” a spoof on "300" for New Regency and 20th Century Fox. “’Fire From Below”, "Flesh Wounds", "Bitch Slap", "Paradox", "What If", "Abalar: Tales of an Ancient Empire", "Kings of Mykonos", and "Julia X" are all films being released in 2010. Films in preproduction and are scheduled to be shot in 2010 include, "Puzzle Vision", "The Illuminati", "Sleeping With the Lion", "Hunting Ground Earth", "Abel's Field", and "Beyond the Farthest Star".
Sorbo has guest starred on the hit shows “Just Shoot Me”, “According to Jim”, “Hope and Faith”, “Two and a Half Men, "The Middleman", “Psych”, and had recurring appearances on “Dharma and Greg”, and on Fox’s “The OC” in 2006-2007. He also appeared in the season one finale of the hit comedy series "Gary, Unmarried". In 2005, he signed an unprecedented development deal with ABC/Touchstone Television that resulted in the creation of “Bobby Cannon”, a half-hour comedy pilot written by Barry Kemp of “Coach” and “Newhart” fame. "Wolf Canyon" is a new pilot comedy set for an early 2010 release. He will also be shooting a new one-hour series, "The Handyman" written by Michael Sloane of "The Equalizer" fame.
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Jeff Spenard

Jeff Spenard has over 16 years of broadcast media experience and is currently the owner of World Talk Radio, LLC, home to the VoiceAmerica and World Talk Radio Networks. Mr. Spenard has worked with hundreds of industry professionals to help them establish a foothold within the media community. In 1991 Mr. Spenard, acted as the director of development, managing sales as an Executive Producer for a 50,000 watt independent talk station in New England. Over the course of three years, while building and strengthening a consistent format, the independent talk station expanded and purchased an additional 50,000 watt station in Phoenix, AZ. Mr. Spenard provided instrumental leadership and guidance for the independent talk station's growth and transformation. Following five years of development and syndicating programs, Mr. Spenard realized the opportunity to navigate his experience towards Internet Based Radio and became one of the leading minds in the industry. Starting in December 2000 Mr. Spenard visualized a format which ultimately became VoiceAmerica, a key member and one of the original "co-founders" of the Internet Talk Radio Network. In time Mr. Spenard rose to the level of Network Director, Vice President and now President and eventually owner of World Talk Radio, LLC. Mr. Spenard has worked to develop nearly 500 radio programs.
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Bob Sullivan

Bob Sullivan (born in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey) is an award winning American online journalist, author and one of the founding members of msnbc.com. Sullivan's second book entitled Gotcha Capitalism was a New York Times Best Seller and appeared on the list just two weeks after being released in January 2007.[1] Sullivan is currently a senior writer, technology correspondent and author of the popular blog, The Red Tape Chronicles, at msnbc.com, where he focuses on technology crime and consumer fraud. He also regularly appears on air on MSNBC, CNBC's On the Money, NBC Nightly News, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates.
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William A. Tiller

Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller, of Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science and spent 34 years in academia. He has published over 250 conventional scientific papers, 3 books and several patents. In parallel, for over 30 years, he has been avocationally pursuing serious experimental and theoretical study of the field of psychoenergetics, which will very likely become an integral part of "tomorrow’s" physics. In this new area, he has published an additional 100 scientific papers and four seminal books. Tiller quotes "For the last four hundred years, an unstated assumption of science is that human intention cannot affect what we call "physical reality." Our experimental research of the past decade shows that, for today's world and under the right conditions, this assumption is no longer correct. We humans are much more than we think we are and Psychoenergetic Science continues to expand the proof of it."
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Tracy Worcester

Tracy Louise Ward, Marchioness of Worcester, frequently referred to as Tracy Worcester (born 22 December 1958 in London, England) is a former actress, now an environmental campaigner. She is a daughter of the Hon. Peter Ward (a younger son of the third Earl of Dudley and formerly chairman of the family business, Baggeridge Brick PLC) and his first wife, Clare Baring, the only child of Giles Baring. She is the sister of British actress Rachel Ward and also has one brother and two half-brothers. Her great-grandfather, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the early twentieth century, and then Governor General of Australia. He was the son of Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley. In 1989, Tracy Worcester began working with Friends of the Earth. Since then, she has been active in green politics as Patron of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a Trustee of the Gaia Foundation, the Schumacher Society and a member of the International Forum on Globalization.
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Michael York

Michael York has enjoyed a successful career for over 45 years, creating an impressive body of work on stage, screen and in the recording studio. A member of Britain’s National Youth Theatre and a graduate of Oxford University, he joined the National Theatre company and made his film debut in “The Taming of the Shrew." York's more than 60 other screen credits include “Romeo and Juliet”, “Cabaret”, “Something for Everyone”, “Jesus of Nazareth", “The Three Musketeers”, “Logan’s Run”, “The Island of Doctor Moreau", “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Conduct Unbecoming” and “Fedora”. He played in all three “Austin Powers” movies, the two “Omega Code" films and recently completed “The Justice of Wolves” and “The Mill and the Cross.” Television work includes "The Forsyte Saga”, "Great Expectations", "Space, ”The Far Country”, "The Heat of the Day", "The Lot" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm”. He was recently a guest on “The Simpsons” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”. He has just completed “The Four Seasons”. Among his Broadway credits are “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me”, “Bent”, "The Little Prince”, “The Crucible”, “Ring Round The Moon” and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ “Outcry”. In 2007 he was King Arthur in a US tour of “Camelot”.
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James Younan

James Younan was born into a politically resented Christian family on July 2nd 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was subsequently forced and threatened by authorities, after which he and his family departed the country as political refugees. He eventually fled to Italy with his mother, three brothers and two sisters. This exodus was due in part to their Christian faith denying any credible right to proper education. Without the right to work in Italy, he applied on behalf of his family for asylum in many countries including Australia, Sweden and Canada. Having been turned down many times however his plea at the United States Embassy was finally granted. The program follows his challenges and immersion into Western Society.
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Dennis P. Zine

Born, raised, and educated in Los Angeles, Councilman Dennis P. Zine was first elected to represent Council District 3 in 2001. The district includes the communities of Canoga Park, Reseda, Tarzana, West Hills, Winnetka, and Woodland Hills with a population of nearly 300,000 residents.
Councilman Dennis Zine's priorities as an elected official include improving the quality of life, reducing crime, increasing public safety, and addressing transportation issues using common sense and practical solutions. As Chairman of the Los Angeles City Council's Personnel Committee, he is intimately involved in every aspect of employment policy within the City family. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Audits and Governmental Efficiency Committee and is a Member of the Public Safety Committee, the Rules & Government Committee, the Education & Neighborhoods Committee, and the Executive Employee Relations Committee where he serves alongside the Mayor.
Working to improve the quality of life for all San Fernando Valley residents, he formed the P.O.S.S.E. (People Organizing a Safe, Secure Environment), a volunteer group of over 450 concerned citizens trained to rid their communities of graffiti, abandoned cars, potholes, unkempt properties, illegal sign postings, and other blight. The Councilman also works closely with Neighborhood Councils and assists them with their community activities.
In addition to his extensive public service experience, the Councilman has volunteered with and continues to support numerous community service organizations, including the Walk of Hearts Foundation.
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